Author: Rick Mc

Podium training.

Double double layout mount.

Double double tucked, 3rd pass.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MjM5NzE5Mzk3?related=1&autoplay=false

Watch more video of 2013 P&G Championships on gymnastike.org

Mykayla Skinner of Desert Lights trains her Cheng at the 2013 P&G Championships

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MTc1NzE5NDE1?related=1&autoplay=false

Watch more video of 2013 P&G Championships on gymnastike.org

Most of the power comes off the board, in any case. 1-arm vaults are illegal, however. She’ll have to be careful in the meet.

For Jr and Sr training today, Lauren Hopkins posted a chronological twitter feed on Couch Gymnast.

Compare that with Anne’s LIVE coverage on Gymnastike, with photos.

Things look good. I can’t recall the USA having this much depth in any other post Olympic year.

Lexie Priessman, unfortunately, had to withdraw due to Achilles tendon pain.

Click PLAY or watch a USA Gymnastics promo video on YouTube.

Landed clean. But both feet out of bounds.

Victoria Moors – Floor – 2013 Pan Am Championships Event Finals

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

13.4 (5.7, 8.1, -0.4)

She landed short in prelims. (VIDEO)

I believe that routine will be ready for Worlds. 🙂

related – Couch Gymnast – 2013 PanAm Championships: 10 Routines to Watch

Ma JIuH YsM-sKT has been the hottest YouTube channel of late for those tracking BIG tricks and combinations in Men’s Gymnastics.

He’s put many of those into a compilation.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Published on Aug 10, 2013

1. Tomomasa Hasegawa – Busnari 1 , Busnari 2
2. Kohei Uchimura – Quadruple twisting double layout back
3. Mathias Fahrig – Double Arabian piked with 540
4. Kenzo Shirai – Quadruple twist
5. Prashanth Sellathurai – Magyar Spindle between pommel’s
6. John Orozco or Marvin Kimble – Kip with 180 + Stretched tkachev with 540
7. Bart Deurloo – Kip with 180 + Kollman + Kovacs + Cassina + Gienger over the bar
8. Jake Dalton – double back with 2,5 twist’s
9. Makoto Okiguchi – salto back with 2,5 + front with 180 + salto back with 720
10. Kenzo Shirai – salto front with 360 + salto front with 1080
11. Hak Seon Yang – Tsukahara stretched with 1260
12. Steven Legendre – quadruple twisting double layout
13. Aleksandr Balandin – Balandin to support planche
14. Hiroshi – Kip with 180 + Suarez
15. Claudio Capelli – Bilozerchev + Heally from 1 bar
16. Andreas? Bretschneider – Kovacs with 720
17. Bobby Baker – Full twisting double front
18. Epke Zonderland – Zonderland + Heally + Shimitsu to front
19. Max Whitlock – 2 loops 3 russians – G ; Busnari – G
20. Kenzo Shirai – Yurchenko with 1080
21. Michael Newburger – Driggs with 180
22. Ramadan Zahran – Pineda to inverted swallow
23. Petrix Barbosa – Basket with salto – Tejada
24. Jossimir Calvo Moreno – Tsukahara dismount from end of the parallel bars
25. Yusuke Tanaka – Kollman + Rybalko
26. Kazuhito Tanaka – Triple back dismount

… head coach John Spini announced the addition of two-time World Champion and former Oklahoma gymnast Hollie Vise to the Gym Devil coaching staff. Vise will be filling the role of assistant coach for Kari Ward, as she takes a yearlong maternity break for her third child. …

Vise is also known for her passion for choreography and will oversee the events of beam and floor. Prior to coaching at ASU, Vise was a traveling coach and called around the country to choreograph routines. …

Gym Devils Add Vise to Coaching Staff

Commercial featuring Leo Messi.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Let’s get acrobats into that suit. 🙂

Kalon Ludvigson is the eight-time U.S. tumbling champion (2006-2013).

Justen Millerbernd on Facebook:

… Kalon had an accident during training on August 6th during the evening session. He was transported to Geisinger Health Center, a trauma 1 unit, where he underwent surgery to stabilize his C5 vertebrae that had “jumped”. Dr. Jonathan Slotkin performed the surgery with several rods and screws to put the vertebrae back into place.

The surgery was successful as pre-surgery Kalon could only shrug his shoulders. Post surgery Kalon could move his upper extremities from the chest up, but did not have fine motor functions. Kalon could feel tingling and pressure in his feet and toes, but did not have control or movement in them.

A MRI was ordered and discovered that Kalon had a slight bulge in one of his discs and a hematoma in his spinal cord. Nothing can be done about the hematoma, but it was decided to have a second surgery to remove a slightly bulged disc that was minimally putting pressure on the spinal cord. The disc was removed, and several fragments were extracted from the area by Dr. Fred Hess. Post surgery Kalon had not lost any movement or feeling, yet had not gained any. Going into the surgery we knew there was no chance for immediate improvement, but wanted to give Kalon every opportunity available for future rehabilitation.

I am sure you are reading all of this and thinking, “What does this mean?” and at this point no one knows. But the basic translation is; Kalon has been injured and put back together. His spinal cord was NOT severed, only stretched and has suffered extensive swelling. The swelling can cause the spinal cord to “block” the feelings from the nerves. As the swelling subsides, Kalon could be able to move those parts again. He currently can feel pressure and tingling in his feet, which is a good sign.

As with any surgery there is a rehabilitation period, which Kalon is about to enter. So for those of you that have heard rumors, or started rumors please understand this; Kalon’s future is unclear and NO ONE but God can decide what that is. Right now Kalon needs your devotion and support, not rumors about what he can or can not do.

Kalon will be attending rehabilitation in Englewood, Colorado at the Craig Hospital. When is he being transferred? It is unclear as the medical flight needed to get him there is costly, around $30,000. Once there, the expenses will continue to escalate. I’m sure no one thought the totals could reach into the $100,000’s, but with a situation like this…. it is quite clear. Kalon can be released as early as tomorrow to go, but depending on the costs, we may have to wait for rehabilitation.

If you would like to help with these costs, we do have an online site that you can donate to: http://www.gofundme.com/3wh640 …

read more on Facebook

It’s back. Lexie’s a contender.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

See more on the USA Gymnastics 2013 P&G Gymnastics Championships – Podium Training playlist on YouTube.

George Thomas:

Each summer the community of Woodinville, Washington hosts a parade featuring local businesses and civic organizations.

On Saturday, August 10, Eastside Gymnastics Academy showed up with a number of their recreational and high school team athletes marching in front of a giant flatbed truck, donated for the event by Boise Cascade, upon which coach Jason Farr mounted two strap bars and some mushrooms.

Several coaches and athletes swung giants down the Main Street parade route, which resulted in the club’s promotional brochures being snapped up by the greatly entertained curbside parents and kids.